Samsung Electronics reported on Thursday (July 31, 2025) a 55% drop in second-quarter working profit as delays in high-bandwidth reminiscence chip shipments and U.S. export curbs on superior chip gross sales to China continued to tug on its key semiconductor division.
The world’s largest reminiscence chip maker posted 4.7 trillion gained ($3.37 billion) in working profit for the April-June interval.
The outcome was roughly according to its earlier estimate of 4.6 trillion gained, which had disillusioned buyers.
Its income rose 0.7% to 74.6 trillion gained, according to its earlier estimate of 74 trillion gained.
Prolonged weak point in its monetary efficiency has deepened investor considerations over the South Korean tech big’s capacity to meet up with smaller rivals in creating high-bandwidth reminiscence chips offered to prospects together with Nvidia and utilized in synthetic intelligence information centres.
Samsung reported earnings simply days after Tesla mentioned it had signed a $16.5 billion deal to supply chips from the tech big, a transfer that would bolster the South Korean firm’s struggling foundry enterprise that makes chips on contract.
